Whose
causeway
parts the vale with shady rows?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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The maiden at her casement sits
As
daylight
glimmers, darkness flits,
But ah!
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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[Note 65: Lepage--a celebrated
gunmaker
of former days.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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As
Severnes
hyger lyghethe banckes of sonde,
Pressynge ytte downe binethe the reynynge streme,
Wythe dreerie dynn enswolters[90] the hyghe stronde,
Beerynge the rockes alonge ynn fhurye breme, 630
Soe wylle wee beere the Dacyanne armie downe,
And throughe a storme of blodde wyll reache the champyon crowne.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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XXXV
His malady, whose cause I ween
It now to
investigate
is time,
Was nothing but the British spleen
Transported to our Russian clime.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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"
Nay, why
external
for internal given?
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Pope - Essay on Man |
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XXIII
Brought by a pedlar vagabond
Unto their solitude one day,
This monument of thought profound
Tattiana
purchased
with a stray
Tome of "Malvina," and but three(56)
And a half rubles down gave she;
Also, to equalise the scales,
She got a book of nursery tales,
A grammar, likewise Petriads two,
Marmontel also, tome the third;
Tattiana every day conferred
With Martin Zadeka.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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At Edinburgh I was in a new world; I mingled
among many classes of men, but all of them new to me, and I was all
attention to "catch" the
characters
and "the manners living as they
rise.
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Robert Burns |
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Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed,
There but wild oats and barren darnel spring;
For tender violet and
narcissus
bright
Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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aries uel
alios_ R ||
_munerarios_
Lachm.
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Latin - Catullus |
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FN a garden where the
whitethorn
spreads her r leaves
My lady hath her love lain close beside her,
Till the warder cries the dawn Ah dawn that
grieves !
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Inne gyte of fyre oure hallie churche dheie dyghtes;
Oure sonnes lie storven[88] ynne theyre
smethynge
gore;
Oppe bie the rootes oure tree of lyfe dheie pyghtes,
Vexynge oure coaste, as byllowes doe the shore.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Gradually
it became plain to him he could not
finish it.
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Yeats |
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It drops as
fiercely
down on us as if
We were to be its prey.
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Lascelle Abercrombie |
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full
reckless
may ye flow,
Since Time hath reft whate'er my soul enjoyed,
And with the ills of eld mine earlier years alloyed.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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I'd be a demi-god, kissed by her desire,
And breast on breast, quenching my fire,
A deity at the gods'
ambrosial
feast.
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Ronsard |
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Why is the latter
celebrated
and not the former?
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| Source: |
Lascelle Abercrombie |
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from
beneath the mound is heard a
pitiable
moan, and a voice is uttered to my
ears: "Woe's me, why rendest thou me, Aeneas?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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que j'en ai suivi, de ces petites
vieilles!
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| Source: |
Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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Nemone in tanto potuit populo esse, Iuventi,
Bellus homo, quem tu diligere inciperes,
Praeterquam iste tuus moribunda a sede Pisauri
Hospes inaurata
pallidior
statua,
Qui tibi nunc cordist, quem tu praeponere nobis 5
Audes, et nescis quod facinus facias.
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| Source: |
Catullus - Carmina |
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And bid Neaera come and trill,
Her bright locks bound with
careless
art:
If her rough porter cross your will,
Why then depart.
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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If, like a tower upon a
headland
rock,
Thou hadst been made to stand or fall alone,
Such scorn of man had helped to brave the shock;
But men's thoughts were the steps which paved thy throne,
THEIR admiration thy best weapon shone;
The part of Philip's son was thine, not then
(Unless aside thy purple had been thrown)
Like stern Diogenes to mock at men;
For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den.
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| Source: |
Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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CANTO III
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs,
Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs,
There stands a structure of
majestic
frame,
Which from the neighb'ring Hampton takes its name.
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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intrepide
uolate, uersus,
et nidum in gremio fouete tuto.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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| Source: |
Alexander Pope |
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The children of whose
turbaned
seas,
Or what Circassian land?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - One - Complete |
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John Lowe, who
likewise
wrote another beautiful song, called
Pompey's Ghost.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Burns |
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(Zu Faust, der aus dem Tanz
getreten
ist.
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Great uneasiness then
overspread the
countenance
of the unhappy man.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Apollinaire's Notes to the Bestiary
Admire the vital power
And nobility of line:
It praises the line that forms the images,
marvellous
ornaments to this poetic entertainment.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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His head was shaven, and his beard
consisted
of a few
grey hairs.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Dear
marshes!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Russell Lowell |
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every vein & lacteal
threading
them among
Her woof of terror.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Blake - Zoas |
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Nice little
thimble!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lear - Nonsense |
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flumina quin etiam te norunt omnia patrem,
te potant nubes ut reddant frugibus imbris;
Cyaneoque sinu caeli tu diceris oras
partibus
ex cunctis inmensas cingere nexu.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Hence nor curb
Avails you, nor
reclaiming
call.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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since thou washest me
Clear of that guilt wherein I now must fall,
Large promise with
performance
scant, be sure,
Shall make thee triumph in thy lofty seat.
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| Source: |
Dante - The Divine Comedy |
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The many men, so
beautiful!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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On the Central Plain they are
fighting
now, 40 what means will we have to meet again?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Hath fate
apportioned
unto thee
This lot in life with stern decree?
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was
withered
at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Poems |
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thus furious, thirsting thus for gore,
The sons of men shall ne'er
approach
thy shore,
And never shalt thou taste this nectar more,'
"He heard, he took, and pouring down his throat,
Delighted, swill'd the large luxurious draught,
'More!
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Jia Zhi, Dawn Court at Daming Palace, for My Colleagues in the Two Ministries Silver candles scent the heavens, stretching along on purple streets, colors of spring in the
Forbidden
City, lush in the morning.
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| Source: |
Du Fu - 5 |
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Some Egyptian royal love-lilt, 5
Some
Sidonian
refrain,
Vows of Paphos or of Tyre,
Mount against the silver sun.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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This wonder
Athenaean
Pallas wrought,
She cloath'd me even with what form she would,
For so she can.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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They were easy to find who
elsewhere
sought
in room remote their rest at night,
bed in the bowers, {2a} when that bale was shown,
was seen in sooth, with surest token, --
the hall-thane's {2b} hate.
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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--and wheresoe'er you go,
My Galatea, think of me:
Let
lefthand
pie and roving crow
Still leave you free.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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What serener palaces,
Where I may all my many senses please,
And by mysterious sleights a hundred thirsts
appease?
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| Source: |
Keats - Lamia |
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[2]
Last night, when some one spoke his name, [3]
From my swift blood that went and came
A
thousand
little shafts of flame.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Tennyson |
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Strength
to these twain, to right their father's wrong!
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Euripides - Electra |
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If after rude and
boisterous
seas, I.
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| Source: |
Robert Herrick |
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" And she writes again, with deeper
significance: "I too have learnt the subtle
philosophy
of living from
moment to moment.
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| Source: |
Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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) 'O seer' I cry,
'To the stern
sanction
of the offended sky
My prompt obedience bows.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
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And where the light fully
expresses
all its colour.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
charities and
charitable
donations in all 50 states of the United
States.
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| Source: |
Sara Teasdale |
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Light they disperse, and with them go
The summer Friend, the
flattering
Foe;
By vain Prosperity received
To her they vow their truth, and are again believed.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Golden Treasury |
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And how should I
presume?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
T.S. Eliot |
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The Ruins of Rome
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de Rome)
Joachim du Bellay, French Renaissance poet 16th century
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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E un che d'una scrofa azzurra e grossa
segnato avea lo suo
sacchetto
bianco,
mi disse: <
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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